Leona vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Leona
based on 5,729 Leona vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Graves Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Graves as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Graves
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Win Against Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Leona vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Leona in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some strategic Leona versus Graves counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Graves. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Graves. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Leona or Graves?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually fairs equally well when facing off against Graves, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Leona makes an ok counter for Graves.
While Leona does have a higher win rate than Graves, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Graves.
Moreover, Leona also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Graves matchups, Leona is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Graves. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Leona to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually accumulates less CS relative to Graves. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Leona versus Graves build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Graves than with most other typical builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 50.8% battling Graves with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Graves as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Leona vs Graves LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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